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2005-08-30 Home Front: Economy

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Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-08-30 18:04|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Dammit! Move to page 3.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-08-30 18:19|| 2005-08-30 18:19|| Front Page Top

Proclamation issued by Mayor Eugene Schmitz after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-08-30 18:22|| 2005-08-30 18:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Mike Franklin stood on the trolley tracks and watched the spectacle unfold. "To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society," he said.

Hey! Let's all head over to Mike's house and pick it clean! He'll "understand". Won't you, you liberal dipshit!

Posted by Oppressed Looter 2005-08-30 18:23|| 2005-08-30 18:23|| Front Page Top

#4 AP photo:

"A looter carries a bucket of beer out of a grocery store in New Orleans on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, as floodwaters continue to rise in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on Monday. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)"

This must be a key ingredient in the famous blue jean and jewelry gumbo that the starving people of New Orleans are mixing up in a desperate bid to survive.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-08-30 18:29|| 2005-08-30 18:29|| Front Page Top

#5 "I'm not saying you're welcome to it," the officer said. "This is the situation we're in. We have to make the best of it."

Translation: It's not worth my badge to shoot all of you.

Posted by Secret Master 2005-08-30 18:39|| 2005-08-30 18:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Article: "We got to feed our children. I've got eight grandchildren to feed."

Don't her grandchildren have parents?

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-08-30 18:45|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-08-30 18:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Atomic Conspiracy---I was thinking the same thoughts this morning when my colleague was telling me about the looting and the plastic garbage can amphib operations in Operation Brewski. My grandmother lived through the 1906 quake and she told me that looters were shot. Martial law was established toot sweet in SF right after the earthquake.

PC treatment of looters during emergencies condones the activity of looting during normal times.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-08-30 18:49|| 2005-08-30 18:49|| Front Page Top

#8 I am hearing that martial law has been declared, along with a 'prison riot and hostage situation' in Orleans Parish...may God have mercy on the Big Easy.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-08-30 19:22|| 2005-08-30 19:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Some officers joined in taking whatever they could, including one New Orleans cop who loaded a shopping cart with a compact computer and a 27-inch flat screen television.

Just taking what you need to get by, right officer?
I figured this was only a matter of time. I know a few folks from down there and they've always said the New Orleans PD was the worst big city police force in the country.
This is going to be grim.

Posted by tu3031 2005-08-30 19:31|| 2005-08-30 19:31|| Front Page Top

#10 stealin a TV cuz you need food and water and ...there's no power, and....oh nevermind. I could see stealing food if you and your family's starving and isolated....the TV is kinda hard to justify

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-30 19:37|| 2005-08-30 19:37|| Front Page Top

#11 Given everything that's floating in that water right now (cholera or dysentary, anyone? Exotic chemical brews?) I'd rather not let it touch my skin for fear of what exactly I'd be bringing home. Food and fluids are one thing, jeans and jewelry may well not be worth the final price the looters pay.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-08-30 19:52|| 2005-08-30 19:52|| Front Page Top

#12 well at least they won't have a West Nile/mosquito-borne illness problem because.....oh...nevermind

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-30 20:49|| 2005-08-30 20:49|| Front Page Top

#13 wonder how many vaults, safes, and gun stores will be cleaned out by the Big Squeezys finest?

/damn cynicism

Posted by Red Dog 2005-08-30 21:08|| 2005-08-30 21:08|| Front Page Top

#14 I'm just a civilian, but what happened to the maxim "when the lootin' starts, the shootin' starts." Had the governor said that, I think things would have never gotten to this point.

Posted by JAB 2005-08-30 21:40|| 2005-08-30 21:40|| Front Page Top

#15 Just heard the LA AG interviewed on Hannity. Mt takeaway: "We got to save people's lives. Property comes next." nstated, the insurance companies will pay and it's mouse nuts compared to the cost to rebuild NO. We don't need a riot on top of everything else. Besides, if these Beauzeaux haven't gotten out yet, they may not survive what's coming next.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-08-30 21:51|| 2005-08-30 21:51|| Front Page Top

#16 Let them have their blue jeans and jewelery, what of any value could be left after a 4 day warning? They will be lucky to survive the next month, they should be looting penicillin and food.

Poor dumb bastards.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-08-30 23:50|| 2005-08-30 23:50|| Front Page Top

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